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Since for some unknown reason "No one" calculates Life Expectancy at the county level anymore, I did it and matched the 5 year ACS range 2019-2023. Hopefully, this sets me up for 202-2024 when both the ACS-5 and CDC Wonder mortality data is out (late Jan or early Feb). Might take me 2 weeks to update ...

OK things are better, but still not 100% when I test the API (just a single field) I still sometimes get "Sorry, the system is currently undergoing maintenance or is busy. Please try again later." So I'm not pulling any real data for a few days and hope things get better. I want the ACS5 data, but if ...

OK it seems everything is down, including data.census.gov ------------------------------ Tom Lahey ------------------------------

Not sure what going on all day 2024 data was not there (was not expecting it). My scripts check for new data by default. 2024 was found at one point and now all my API scripts, the server reports and more are not working. When they pushed the data out til Jan, did someone forget something = not fun stuff ...

Its interesting how we drown in data, but do we ever look at the data. A few years back I asked the SF health dept why for over a year they had 7% ( a huge number) of deaths reported as unknown. They have great people and lots of money, so not a resource issue. So it wasn't an X-Files episode, but they ...